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A65834	An antidote against the venome of The snake in the grass, or, The book so stiled and the Christian people called Quakers vindicated from its most gross abuses and calumnies in certain reflections detecting the nameless author's malice, outrage, and persecution against the said people : unto which is annex'd a brief examination of the author's second book stil'd Satan dis-rob'd : also, some notice taken of his discourse for The divine institution of water-baptism.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1889; ESTC R27066	123,381	290

Lies and Slanders as ever we met withal But who or what has forced him to be such a Railer Not the Spirit of Christ not a Christian Spirit to be sure If he had apprehended us such mad Men and silly ridiculous Fools as he has represented us he should rather pity us than bend his Wits to rail and scoff at us Sn. p. 13. Intending chiefly to insist upon some of their more material and monstrous Heresies thus against the Quakers Re. This Charge looks big and seems to make a great Noise but as 't is levelled against us in general 't is as false as the rest As concerning the Government his Authority is as invalid which is he only refers us to the Quakers Vnmask'd printed 1691. What great Authority is this but one of F. Bugg's abusive Pamphlets which is fully answer'd and his Abuses detected over and over which this partial Adversary takes no notice of That some of these called Quakers were at first Common-wealth's Men or for a Common-wealth and afterward for a Monarchy when it pleased God by his over-ruling Power and Providence to cause such alterations We see no monstrous Heresie herein any more than was in Samuel See 1 Sam. 8. 5 6. ch 10. 1. That the Quakers are against their being concerned in Fighting and destroying Men's Lives as believing that 't is not in Christ's mediatory Kingdoms and yet grant that Wars and Fighting are a Judgment from God in the Kingdom of this World What Heresie or Fallibility is in this pray This is the true state of the Difference however aggravated and perverted by this Adversary and his Author Sn. Sect. 3. p. 17 18. Anno 1650 and 1654. Then it was that Rome was reaping a plentiful Harvest which they had long been sowing by setting up in that universal Toleration multitudes of various Sects on purpose to divide and so confound their only substantial Adversary the Church of England They dressed Enthusiasm in several Shapes and Forms of Presbyter Anabaptist Independent Quaker Muggleton and along c. which differ only in degrees Re. Here the Snake puts his Sting out against all Protestant-Dissenters and as greatly envying their Liberties makes a very ill Construction of their former Toleration And no doubt their present Liberty does as ill please him Ishmael like his Hand is against every Man and no sort of Dissenters how conscientious soever can escape his Blow or Push He makes Rome the Author Patron and Planter of them all both Presbyter Anabaptist Independent Quakers c. how plainly soever they have approved themselves Protestants averse to Popery and as Dissenting-Protestants are tolerated it appears how greatly he envies their Liberties and is displeased with the Government for granting the same Oh rare Son of the Church Will nothing satisfie this Incendiary but Persecution and Ruin to Dissenting-Protestants May not such his Work be very grateful to the Popish Interest What a cordial Friend then does he shew himself to the Protestants Sn. p. 19. This Doctrin of Enthusiasm came chiefly from the Church of Rome Labadee a Jesuit set it up in Holland and Robert Barclay the Quaker was tinctured in his younger Years in the Scotch Convent at Paris and John Vaughton was a Roman Catholick who is now a great Preacher among the Quakers in London and he adds in his Errata William Southby a Preacher now among them in Pensilvania Re. These this obscure Accuser brings as Instances to make good the Title of this Third Section which is That the Popish Emissaries first set up Quakerism in England which is an old lying Story and his Instances as impertinent And 1st We deny that any Jesuit set it up in Holland and are persuaded many of our Friends there can testifie the contrary 2. Whatever the Educations of the said R. B. and J. V. were in their Youth as to Religion they were none of the first Promoters of Quakerism as he calls it in England by many Years 3. And suppose the One was tinctured and the other was a Roman Catholick this makes for us that was not since they were Quakers but before they turned Quakers and then when they did they turned from Papists and Popery in Testimony against it and against human Traditions and Superstitions and for the Holy Spirit 's Teaching and Worship of God in Spirit and Truth Sn. p. 20. The Quaker-Infallibility was contrived on purpose to bring Men back to the Infallibility of the Church of Rome by these Steps First the Infallibility was placed by G. Fox and all the Primitive Quakers in every single Quaker Re. These are envious and false Aspersions to render us infamous obnoxious and offensive 1. We positively deny any such Contrivance Design or Purpose 2. We deny that G. F. and all the Primitive Quakers place Infallibility in a single Person like Papists or in every single Quaker without distinction but in the Spirit of Truth which assures us in Matters of Faith and Salvation The Man often sillily scoffs at the Quaker's Infallibility but does not truly state their Principle in that Case Sn. p. 38. in Sect 5. They i. e. the Quakers damn all the World to Hell all since the days of the Apostles but themselves Re. This is a great Untruth We damn none to Hell 't is Men's own Wickedness in hating the Light which carries them to Hell We believe there were many good Men and saved since the Apostles days Sn. p. 40. They pretend to a Perfection even equal with God Re. We pretend so of Christ not of our selves We desire we may always be kept truly Humble and in true Fear out of all Boasting and high Thoughts of our selves that Christ may be magnified in us Sn. p. 41 42. in Sect. 5. They give to themselves and to one another the most peculiar Titles of Christ as that of The Branch and the Star and the Son of God which are attributed to George Fox and which he takes to himself quoting New Rome Arraigned p. 33 34. and The Quakers Vnmask'd and New Rome Vnmask'd referring the Reader to those Books of F. Bugg 's which he has quoted upon the Margin as he saith p. 48. Re. These are F. Bugg's notorious refuted Lies which this Adversary is so shamefully credulous of We positively deny giving those peculiar Titles of Christ to our selves or to one another and Bugg has been charged therewith and cannot prove them G. Fox is not so much as mentioned in that Epistle of E. Burroughs out of which F. Bugg takes these Titles the Branch the Star c. which are peculiar to Christ. Sn. p. 51 53. Sect 6. That G. F.'s Great Mystery p. 282. endeavours to prove That the Quakers are perfect as God not only in quality but in equality from Christ's words Be ye perfect even as your heavenly Father is perfect Re. These are not G. F.'s Words of the Quakers that they are so his Words are here perverted He refers to Christ's Words and the Apostles and

Body which Christ assumed we do not call the Body of Christ as a Man's Body is called his Body but only as when an Angel assumes a Body For the Body which Christ assumed was his real Body and he really suffered in it and therein was made a little lower than the Angels Heb. 2 9. who were not capable of such Sufferings as his yet he was dignified crowned with Glory and Honour far above them 24. Again the Snake perversly quotes F. Bugg's New Rome Arraign'd That the Quakers can never call the bodily Garment Christ thence inferring His Body to be but only as a Cloak or a Garment which a Man wears which he may throw off or put on again without any alteration in his Person or Nature p. 237 238. In this he perversly strains the Simily a Man's Cloak has no feeling to suffer with him when he is bruised or wounded and he is partial still in not taking notice of the Answer to F. Bugg even in this very Point See Charitable Essay p. 2. thus given viz. As to J. P.'s Words chiefly objected That we cannot call the Bodily Garment Christ. The word Garment I take to be only a figurative manner of speaking as the word Vail which is his Flesh is Heb. 10. 20. An Ingenuous Man would allow him his own meaning as he explains it namely That we cannot call the Body which he took upon him Chiefly and in the First Place Jesus Christ. It not being first nor the intire Christ because he was the Son of God and consequently Christ before he took upon him that Body even when God created all things by Jesus Christ Ephes. 3. 9. He made the Worlds by his Son Heb. 1. 2. And after several Arguments in p. 3 4. proving the Divinity and Pre-existence of Christ the Son of God before he assumed the Body the general Consequence deduced from the Premises is That the Names Jesus and Christ chiefly and primarily belong to Him that took the Body though sometimes given to each and to both 25. False again That the Quakers say or make the Flesh of Christ of an earthly perishing Nature p. 238. from F. Bugg 's saying against J. P. That which he Christ took upon him i. e. his Body was our Garment even the Flesh and Blood of our Nature which IS of an earthly perishing Nature falsly adding and is perished by their Account p. 238. Thus from Bugg 's Authority and Citation against us but takes no notice of the Answer in the said Charitable Essay p. 4. in these Words viz. He i. e. F. B. and now his Disciple the Author of the Snake hath here notoriously wronged the People called Quakers by imposing a false Creed upon them Where do they say That Christ's Body either was or is of an earthly perishing Nature I utterly deny the Charge and F. B. also to be our Creed-maker Construer or Expositor who hath unjustly inferr'd this upon us from Is. Pennington's saying He took upon him the Flesh and Blood of our Nature which is of an earthly perishing Nature Whereby neither he nor the Quakers say That Christ's Body either was or is of an earthly perishing Nature for his Flesh saw no Corruption therefore did not perish tho' our Nature our Flesh and Blood be of an earthly perishing Nature so is not Christ's I cannot rationally suppose that J. P. ever intended that Christ's Body which on Earth did not corrupt is of an earthly perishing Nature now in Heaven as ours is now on Earth take his Words also Grammatically for it is such an absurdity as I cannot think ever entred into Is. Pennington's Heart being a Man both of Learning Sense and Conscience The Flesh and Blood of our Nature being antecedent next to which is of an earthly perishing Nature Therefore perishing appears only relative to Flesh and Blood as 't is ours and in us and not to Christ's Body which is incorruptible and glorious 26. The People called Quakers neither account that the Body of Christ perished vanished or was annihilated as said p. 238. but that 't was changed so as to be a glorious celestial Body 27. 'T is not true in his Sense That the Quakers think that the Name of Christ does belong to every one of them not only more than to that Body now but as well as to it while upon the Earth quoting Bugg 's New Rome Again Doth not the Name Christ belong to the whole Body and to every Member of the Body as well as to the Head A Question p. 27. Thus one Adversary credits and promotes the Authority of another to reproach us without taking notice of our full Answers already given Oh! disingenuous as in this very Point In the said Charitable Essay p. 4. in these Words viz. Object Doth not the Name belong to the whole Body c. So that there are as many Christ's by their Doctrin as believing Quakers Answ. No that 's not our Doctrin there 's one Body and so but one Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. But turn the Question into F. B.'s contrary Doctrin implied and then 't is The Name Christ belongs not to the whole Body Christ's Body i. e. his Church is not Anointed it therefore hath no right to his Name nor any Member thereof but then doth not this appear contrary to the Apostle's Doctrin viz. For as the Body is one and hath many Members and all the Members of the Body which is one though they be many yet are but one Body even so is Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. The Protestant Annotations in Queen Elizabeth's Bible are That we might be one Body with Christ and the whole Church one Christ. And on Ephes. 1. 23. The Church is also called Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. What says our Adversary to these Annotations Dare he judge them horrid Blasphemy And he that establisheth us with you in Christ Jesus and hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anointed us is God 2 Cor. 1. 21. Quest. But doth not the Name belong to the whole Body and to every Member therein as well as to the Head Answ. 1. Not Equally because he is the Head 2. Not Literally to be so named but vertually and spiritually i. e. as by inward Participiation and so truly with respect to that divine Power and Spirit whereby both the Head and the Body are Anointed and united and each Member partakes thereof in some measure But Christ the Head in all things has the Preheminence he was Anointed more eminently in Fulness his Members in part or measure by the same Spirit and Power he was Anointed above his Fellows implying their being anointed in degree 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ signifies Anointed as being the very Christ the only begotten Son of God which I know no Member of his Body assumes to himself but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christian which has relation to Christ the Anointed for where Christ's Church which is his Body is said to be the Fulness of him that filleth all in